A WOMAN was caught driving more than three times the legal alcohol limit in Mentone last week.
Police intercepted the car on Balcombe Road at around 12.50am on 13 June. The driver was taken to a police station, where she was found to have an alleged blood alcohol reading of .187.
The 53-year-old will be charged with exceed prescribed concentration of alcohol, and face the Moorabbin Magistrates’ Court. She lost her licence on the spot and had her car impounded for a month.
Police caught the woman as part of operation “Regal”, which ran over the Queen’s birthday long weekend. Victoria Police assistant commissioner road policing Libby Murphy said before the weekend “Police will be conducting alcohol and drug testing at every opportunity. Our fleet of drug and alcohol testing vehicles will be out on the road, while every police car has the potential to perform a drug or alcohol test. If you drink or take drugs and drive, you will get caught. It’s true, we can’t be everywhere, but we will be somewhere – and if you act carelessly on our roads and put yourself and others at risk, you will be caught.”
First published in the Chelsea Mordialloc Mentone News – 16 June 2021